Thursday, June 07, 2007

BANDUNG TODAY - a glimpse of the weekend city

Bandung is a city located in the middle of west java – Indonesia. It is the capital city of West Java Province in Indonesia. Lately this cool climate city is becoming more and more alive during week-end. Bandung today is a targeted week-end city for the Jakarta’s citizens and becoming more famous because of its many shopping spot and also its local culinary delights. This is the main reason why this blog named BANDUNG the week-end city.
During week-end almost all the main streets – such as Setia Budi, Cihampelas, Riau, Merdeka – flooded by shoppaholics and food hunters. The ‘Factory Outlet’, shopping malls, restaurants, even the food sellers on the streets are busy taking care of those week-end travelers.
There are a lot to offer from Bandung. For you who are crazy for shopping, you can have a friendly shopping atmosphere – not mentioned the discount you’ll get. There are hundreds of places to shop with affordable price. Places like ‘Rumah Mode’, ‘Cascade’, ‘The Summit’, ‘Heritage’, and all others are likely the place for you who like to shop in a cozy, well design, comforting shopping spot. In other hand, for you who want to get even cheaper prices, you can go to public market (we use to call it ‘trade center’). Yes, it’s less cozy, less comfortable but the price you’ll get is worthed. Just keep in mind you have to have a good bargaining skill. In a place like ‘Pasar Baru’ or ‘Pasar Kota Kembang’ you’ll get many good things with a good price. The price is unbelievably cheap. The key to shop in this city is to know what service that you want and what price that you are willing to pay, the rest is just enjoy your shopping frenzy. Later on, this blog will give you more information about shopping tips and shopping place in Bandung.
Now, for you food hunters, Bandung does well known by its culinary delights, both local food and other kind of food. The famous TV program hosted by Bondan… often introduces many kinds of tasty food in Bandung. Bandung is a city of food. Just name what food you want – snack, meal, traditional food, cookies, cakes, bakes, everything, and you can find the best taste here in Bandung.
And what is unique about Bandung delights is that every time you come back to Bandung there’s always new food to try. Bandung seems to keep making new food delights that you can’t even imagine. The creativity of the local that made it possible for Bandung delights to keep making new culinary experience as an enjoyable and fun to look for.
Soon we also going to provide all those food hunters out there with information about all those delights and where to get it. Just wait and see.